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General Botha’s triumph

July 9 2015, 7:56pm, The Times

On this day: July 10, 1915

To the youngest among the sister nations of the Empire belongs the glory of the first complete triumph of our arms in the war. Dr Seitz, the Governor, has unconditionally surrendered the whole of the German forces in South-West Africa to General Botha and the Army of the Union. When the last German surrender has been made, we shall remember with pride and with thankfulness that it was General Botha and the Dominion who first trod the path of victory and shattered the resistance of the enemy on soil that was their own. It is theirs no more. The Colony where in a time of weakness and indecision we suffered Germany to plant her foot has been wrested from…